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04-22-2014, 02:23 AM
'Low-Cost' Folding Telescope Under Development at DARPA
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The United States military's advanced research arm is working on a foldable space telescope that could image Earth in high resolution at a relatively low cost.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) says the telescope design - k**wn as the Membrane Optical Imager for Real-Time Exploitation (http://www.space.com/25152-darpa-proposes-folding-space-telescope-design-animation.html), or MOIRE - would be of great use in geosynchro**us Earth orbit, the spot 22,000 miles up where most telecommunications satellites reside.
"Membrane optics could enable us to fit much larger, higher-resolution telescopes in smaller and lighter packages," Lt. Col. Larry Gunn, MOIRE program manager, said in a statement. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/21/darpa-folding-telescope/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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The United States military's advanced research arm is working on a foldable space telescope that could image Earth in high resolution at a relatively low cost.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) says the telescope design - k**wn as the Membrane Optical Imager for Real-Time Exploitation (http://www.space.com/25152-darpa-proposes-folding-space-telescope-design-animation.html), or MOIRE - would be of great use in geosynchro**us Earth orbit, the spot 22,000 miles up where most telecommunications satellites reside.
"Membrane optics could enable us to fit much larger, higher-resolution telescopes in smaller and lighter packages," Lt. Col. Larry Gunn, MOIRE program manager, said in a statement. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/21/darpa-folding-telescope/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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